Lady Nelson by vossiewulf - Amati/Victory Models - 1:64

[Rick01]

Hmmm I'm not sure if I'm speaking with you or not. Like others here I was traumatised when the build stopped - it was just like finding the last few pages of a brilliant book had been removed!! 😞 

 

Anyway welcome back mate, it's good to see you here again and I'm looking forward to seeing this little build finished. 🙂 

 

Rick 

[vossiewulf]

1 hour ago, Rick01 said:

Hmmm I'm not sure if I'm speaking with you or not. Like others here I was traumatised when the build stopped - it was just like finding the last few pages of a brilliant book had been removed!! 😞 

 

Anyway welcome back mate, it's good to see you here again and I'm looking forward to seeing this little build finished. 🙂 

 

Rick 

Haha! Sorry Rick, but I'm very glad to see you're still kicking around this forum 😀

[Rick01]

1 hour ago, vossiewulf said:

Haha! Sorry Rick, but I'm very glad to see you're still kicking around this forum 😀

Still around but now only viewing. 😞 Arthritis in my spine and dominant wrist plus a couple of cataracts to be attended to early next year have stopped me building anything at the moment. Maybe later next year as I'm also seeing surgeons about the wrist, keeping my fingers crossed.

 

Rick 

[vossiewulf]

6 hours ago, Rick01 said:

Still around but now only viewing. 😞 Arthritis in my spine and dominant wrist plus a couple of cataracts to be attended to early next year have stopped me building anything at the moment. Maybe later next year as I'm also seeing surgeons about the wrist, keeping my fingers crossed.

 

Rick 

I'm sorry to hear that, Rick, that must be very frustrating.  I will be keeping my fingers crossed also.

[vossiewulf]

While waiting for some supplies to arrive- glues, thinners, paints, etc. as I had to dump almost all of my liquids for the move, I have been looking at the rigging and at this point I am very confused about what I will do. Chruck's Cheerful and Lennarth Petersson in his book where he covers a British cutter rig, and all the contemporary models I can find in the gallery show a mainmast and a topmast and two yards, a lower yard and a topsail yard. 

 

However, the Lady Nelson plans have a very long (for the cutter's length) mainmast set up to hang two yards and a relatively short topmast that carries yet another yard- they're called lower, middle, and upper yards in the plans which doesn't help much.

 

Basically the good sources which show accurate rigs, the kind of thing I need to be able to recreate the rig in scale, means if I follow them I'm dumping the plan rig entirely and going with a scratch rig. That doesn't bother me except I will need to do something to convert the Cheerful plans to 1/64 to get the mast and yard lengths and widths, as the LN mast and yard diagrams will be wrong.

 

Meanwhile, here are a couple pics that show the Lady Nelson made it through the 3500 mile move in perfect shape. In the first pic you can see the holly decking has lost its bone whiteness for a much nicer cream color, which was the plan.

And with respect to the planking, we can see that after five years we've had just a little bit of movement so now you can see some of the plank edges where it was totally smooth before. This is also to plan, I didn't put any glue on the edges of the planks so that they could move relative to each other.

[flyenrw]

Ahh; another Lady to follow....Very nice detail work Vossiewolf and the variations you have chosen really turn your Lady into a one of a kind!                                Best Regards, Roger

[vossiewulf]

58 minutes ago, flyenrw said:

Ahh; another Lady to follow....Very nice detail work Vossiewolf and the variations you have chosen really turn your Lady into a one of a kind!                                Best Regards, Roger

Thanks Roger, you're doing cool things with yours too. I really like the added detail on your companionway, I wish I would have thought of that for mine.

[vossiewulf]

Another quick update, @Chuck was kind enough to send me his Cheerful rigging plans in PDF form, and I just took them down to Staples for sizing down to 75% and printing, that's the conversion factor for 1:48 to 1:64.

 

So I'm going to do the full Cheerful rig on my Lady Nelson, making it even MORE kitbashed, which didn't seem possible 😊

 

I also put in an order at Syren for the standing rigging-dyed rope, something I had overlooked when I bought a bunch of rope from Chuck before.

 

Only another week or so before I can really start moving forward again.

[vossiewulf]

I actually made some sawdust today ripping square castello boxwood stock for the masts and yards, so I'm officially working on Lady Nelson again. That's the up side.

 

The downside is that after ripping the stock and mounting the four-jaw chuck on the lathe, I found that my four jaw chuck key went missing in the move. And Little Machine Shop is out of stock. Found one that should work at another place, but it won't arrive until probably the 16th, so can't make any more progress on the masts and yards until then.

 

Also, my basic plan to do the Cheerful rig on the LN is pretty crazy. Starting with the something I didn't anticipate, which is that Cheerful is altogether bigger than LN, about 12 feet longer at scale. Further, the mast is stepped pretty far back and has little rake, while the mast step for the LN is about four scale feet forward of that in Cheerful and this will require some mast rake.

 

Bottom line is sometimes I wished I could just follow the directions 😊